CVE-2013-2155

MEDIUM 5.8CVE-2013-2155 · Published 20/08/2013 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2013-2155 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.8) vulnerability affecting xml security for c++ (apache).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 5.8%, higher than 93.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
xml security for c++ apache	`= 0.1.0= 0.2.0= 1.1.0= 1.2.0= 1.2.1= 1.3.0= 1.3.1= 1.4.0= 1.5.0= 1.5.1= 1.6.0= 1.6.1≤ 1.7.0`	No fix yet

Description

Apache Santuario XML Security for C++ (aka xml-security-c) before 1.7.1 does not properly validate length values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or bypass the CVE-2009-0217 protection mechanism and spoof a signature via crafted length values to the (1) compareBase64StringToRaw, (2) DSIGAlgorithmHandlerDefault, or (3) DSIGAlgorithmHandlerDefault::verify functions.

References

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